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Freshman biology fascinated Fiona Weeks. The section on reproductive health changed her life. "But not in a weird way," insisted the 17-year-old senior from Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock. The study sparked a journey that she hopes will end with her working as a doctor in a developing country, counseling pregnant women on their health and delivering their babies. If there's one thing Weeks has learned, it's not to doubt herself. After Weeks' first quarter of...

Freshman biology fascinated Fiona Weeks. The section on reproductive health changed her life. "But not in a weird way," insisted the 17-year-old senior from Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock. The study sparked a journey that she hopes will end with her working as a doctor in a developing country, counseling pregnant women on their health and delivering their babies. If there's one thing Weeks has learned, it's not to doubt herself. After Weeks' first quarter of...

The relocation of Aurora Central Catholic High School from its East Side location to one on the West Side has been delayed by at least a year, while the Rockford Diocese conducts an $11 million fund drive to build the new school. The new school, which would be on 36.5 acres near the Illinois Math and Science Academy, now won`t open until at least September 1994, rather than in 1993, said Principal Robert Stewart. The fund drive will begin early next year and should end by March 1993,...

The City of Aurora on Wednesday won first place in the Governor's Home Town Awards youth project category for Project Unity's Back to School Fair program. A volunteer effort supported by the city, it provided free school supplies to 4,000 students in the past two years. Project Unity was formed after the 1995 murder of Aurora Central Catholic High School basketball star Moshe Rogers. "I would like to congratulate all the people who have participated in Project Unity's Back to School Fair,"...

A 16-year-old boy was released Saturday from Mercy Center hospital after sustaining a half-inch cut to his neck outside Aurora Central Catholic High School in the 1200 block of North Edgelawn Drive. The boy told police he was confronted by three other teenagers after a basketball game Friday night. The three teens were upset about tires being slashed on a car they were using, police said. One of the angry teenagers cut the victim's neck with a sharp object, police...

A former priest already charged with sexually assaulting a Geneva teenager has been indicted for allegedly abusing another girl while he worked at Aurora Central Catholic High School. Mark Campobello, 38, of Belvidere faces three new counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, the Kane County state's attorney's office said Friday. Campobello "held a position of trust, authority or supervision" over the minor when the abuse occurred between November 1999 and March 2000, prosecutors said.

A McHenry County grand jury indicted a teacher at Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock for sexually abusing a girl under the age of 16, State's Atty. Thomas F. Baker's office announced Thursday. Authorities declined to say whether the victim was a student at the school or to give any details. Francis Hogan, 25, of Woodstock, was indicted on two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for an incident last February, said Michael Vujovich, first assistant state's attorney.

The Notre Dame women's basketball team signed one of the top players in the country Wednesday, 5-foot-9-inch guard Michelle Marciniak, who was a USA Today and a Parade All-American as a junior last year. Marciniak scored 2,161 points in three seasons at Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pa. She was a member of the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival East team that won a gold medal last summer. The Irish also signed Audrey Gomez, a 5-9 guard from...

Lisa Reycraft and Russell Rudolph were married Nov. 7 in Crystal Lake. She is the daughter of Leo and Beverly Reycraft of Crystal Lake. He is the son of Russ and Kay Rudolph of Clinton, Wis. The bride is a graduate of Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock and is a clerk for Intermatic Inc. in Spring Grove. The groom is a graduate of McHenry East High School in McHenry, Ill. and is a brick layer for Richards Masonry in Richmond, Ill. The couple will reside in Genoa City,...

The only sound was a click the first time an angry freshman pulled the trigger on a gun pointed at Norma Cooper as she stood before her algebra class in Dolton's Thornridge High School Thursday morning. "Everyone thought it was a cap gun," said one of the students in the class, John Ellis, 14, of Harvey. "The teacher told him to put it away." But the boy, with his father's .357 Magnum revolver in his hand, pulled the trigger again, and this time it fired a bullet that passed through...